CORRESPONDENCE Mr. McDermott replies to Shire President (To the Editor)
Sir, — I have read with some concern the statement made by the President of the Yarrowlumla Shire…
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Council & local affairs, 1964
285 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 14 of 15
Captain’s Flat News Costly and Dangerous, Says Engineer Shire Moves to Curb Vandalism
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has written to the Captain’s Flat police and headmaster of the Central Schol, seeking assistance in dealing with acts of vandalism which have been reported by the Engineer (Mr. J. M. Firth)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Widows’ Patroness Congratulated Mayor and Mrs. Land entertain widows
Members of the Queanbeyan Association of Civilian Widows were entertained to dinner by the Mayor, Aid. F. E. Land and Mrs. Land in the R.S.L. board room on Tuesday night and afterwards at the Green Eucalypt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council Appeal for Caution in Water Usage
Due to the abnormally hot weather conditions over the past few days, the Municipal Council this afternoon appealed to residents to restrict the usage of water as much as possible to avoid the necessity to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News For The Man On The Land Shire extends subsidy for tussock control
Yarrowlumla Shire Council wilt subsidise the eradication 61 serrated tussock on land outside its area but adjacent to its bound aries by supplying chemicals to landholders at cost. This was decided at the last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Captain’s Flat News £200 Shire grant for maintenance
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has allocated £200 from the general fund towards the cost of minor maintenance and improvement work in Captain’s Flat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Good Neighbour Council’s bright Christmas party
The Queanbeyan branch of The Good Neighbour Council of N.S.W. held a most successful and enjoyable Christmas party in the Parish Hall on Friday-night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cr. P. Osborne to retire as Shire President
Cr. P. J. B. Osborne, of Bungendore, has been, the president of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council for the past eight years, will not stand for re-election…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →County Council Depot Takes Shape
THE partly completed depot of the "Southern .Tablelands Co unty Council, which is being erected in the industrial area, off Yass Road, Queanbeyan. Aid. A, Lambert, a Queanbeyan delegate on the County Council, said at Thursday night’s meeting of the Municipal Council that further tests of the foundations had proved satisfactory. As the. result of earlier tests taken, it was feared that the building may have to bepulled down and the foundations re-poured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bungendore Progress Association Dissatisfied with Shire Efforts (By Publicity Officer)
There was a good attendance, of members at the final meeting of the Bungendore Progress Association for 1964, which was held at the School of Arts A special vote of thanks was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Captain’s Flat News Captain’s Flat shire briefs Search for suitable garbage depot site
The acquisition of a more suitable site in the Captain’s Flat area for a garbage depot is precenting a problem for the Shire Council. At the last meeting the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shire powers restricted
Yarrowlumla Shire Council has no power to approve of the development of the reserve on Brook’s Hill,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Shire President
Cr. T. N. Gorman, who has been a member of the Yarrowlumla Shire Council for only 5½ years, was elected…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£150 damages against Council
An infant was awarded £150 damages against the Queanbeyan municipal Council by Judge Fitzpatrick in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Income Up 10 Per Cent in 1965 Shire Budgets for General Rate Increase
Yarrowlumla Shire Council on Wednesday reduced the rate from 9d. to 6d. in the £ in the General Fund, but due to an average increase in valuations of some 78per cent/ratepayers will pay an estimated £7,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Municipal Bandstand (By Publicity Officer)
The monthly meeting of the Municipal Band was held on Tuesday in the Band Hall and a good attendance of members was present…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Supplementary grant of £1,360 to Shire Council
The supplementary grant to the Yarrowlumla Shire council from Commonwealth Aid Road Grants, 1964-65 has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ald. F. E. Land re-elected Mayor
Ald. F. E. Land was re-elected Mayor of Queanbeyan for his second term at a special meeting last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Captain’s Flat News Shire budgets to meet ’Flat financial problem
The estimates in the Captain’s Flat Local and Water Funds, adopted by the Yarrowlumla Shire Council at its meeting last week, provide for increased income from rates in 1965 of approximately £644, compared to the current year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alderman wants more diplomacy
Ald. E. J. Beaver claimed at the last meeting of the Municipal Council that greater diplomacy was desirable, in dealings with the staff by the Engineer (Mr. J. O’Brien)…
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